Brake for fishing reels



Sept. 4, 1951 A KOVALOVSKY ETAL 2,566,803

BRAKE FOR FISHING REELS f Filed May 12, 1947 INVENTUM ,4er/ mwysky BY 0 Mp/SKV Patented Sept. 4, i951 HUNITED OFFICE BRAKE FOR- FISHING REELS Arthur Kovalovsky and Oscar Kovalovsky,

Los Angeles, Calif.

" Application May 12, 1947, Serial No. 747,415`

This Ainvention relates in general to iishing reels but more particularly to and has for an object the provision of an improved type of brake mechanism by means of which the paying out of aline from the reel may be suitably retarded in accordance with diierent requirements of shing practice.

An object is to provide and equip a fishing reel with a convenient, inexpensive and yet eflicient brake embodying a minimum of parts which may readily be attached to conventional reel structure and which by reason of an extraordinarily single and simple adjustment will serve to keep the line taut at all times pursuant to the snagging of a fish.

Other and more detailed objects will appear hereinafter as our invention is disclosed.

In the drawing accompanying this specicaton there is shown a more or less conventional type of reel and mounting and our improved brake mechanism operatively applied thereto.

In said drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a fishing reel embodying our improvements;

Fig. 2 is an axial cross section of the same on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section in the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

A conventional shing reel R usually embodies spaced ends E and E1 spaced apart by spacers S, S, etc., which are connected at their extremities to ends E and E1 as by screws IIJ. Reel R includes a spool rotatably carried on ends E and E1 on a shaft II and in bearings l2. A handle H is geared to shaft II of reel R for rotating the shaft as the handle is turned.

Drums D and D1 are provided at the ends ofthe reel and serve as flanges for the reel. Said drums or flanges have rims I3 which extend endwardly through central recesses I4 in the inner webs I5 of the ends E and E1. One of the flanges, as at D, we employ as a drum adapted to be engaged by a pair of brake shoes, B and B1, which are pivotally mounted on a disc C at points I6 and |61, respectively, so that their eccentrically formed and similar outer edges I1 may frictionally engage the inner surface I8 of rim I3, or be disengaged from said rim, selectively, in a shing operation. Said disc C is xed to shaft II for rotation with the handle I-I.

Shoes B and B1 are normally urged out of engagement with rim I3 by springs I9 which are seated in bores in disc C while their oppo- 3 Claims. (Cl. 242-8437) site extremities bear against the heel portions 2| `of shoes B and B1, thereby tending to hold the shoes disengaged from drum D.

Ends E and E1 carry frictionless bearings F which rotatably receive hubs 2'2 of discs C. The hub of said disc, as at 22 is internally threaded toadjustably receive a stem 23 of an adjusterfA which is exteriorly mounted on end piece. E, as in Fig. 2i. Said adjuster is coaxial with spool R and is both rotatable with and independently of the spool, the extent to which it may be independently rotatable being limited by a stop screw or pin 24 carried by the adjuster and a similar device 25 carried by hub 22 of disc C.

Disc C' is a pair of diametrically disposed pins 26, 25, arranged tandem fashion in a diametrical bore 21, the inner abutting ends of which are spheroidal while their outer ends engage the inner edges 28 of shoes B and B1, so as to provide Wedge-like adjacent terminal portions.

As shown in Fig. 2, the bottom of the threaded bore of hub 22 into which the adjuster stem 23 is extended is conically formed and carries a ball '28 at an axial point where pins 26, 26 abut and adapted to commonly engage said pins, Wedge-like for spreading the pins apart. Thus, as adjuster A is rotated and thereby extended inwardly into hub 22 the ball 28 is forced between pins 26, 2B, said pins are radially urged against shoes B and B1 and said shoes, in turn, are urged into braking engagement with rim I3. In such manner spool R is correspondingly retarded, or as the adjuster is moved in a reverse direction, the spool is freed for rotation. Disc C being iixed to shaft II and said shaft being subject to a back stop (not shown) at its opposite end, the disc is held stationary while the spool is paying out a line under the inuence of the brake.

It is well known that in fishing reels the shaft I I is fixed to handle H while spool R is adapted to rotate either with or on said shaft. Said shaft freely rotates in one direction for taking up slack in a line when the spool is clutched to the shaft as by means of the shoes B and B1, or otherwise. but is prevented from rotation in a reverse direction by the usual back-stop when the spooll is stationary or is rotating in a reverse direction for paying out the line under tension as when shoes B and B1 are engaged with drum D under the iniiuence of the adjuster A. Hence, the frictional contact of the shoes regulates the retardation of the spool in a pay-out operation to an extent desired by a fisherman under diiierent conditions by reason of the adjustment of adjuster A.

3 We claim: 1. A fishing reel comprising: a frame, a crank V operated shaft rotatable on the frame, a spool rotatable on the shaft, ,a brake supporting member at all times rotatable with the shaft, shoes pivotally mounted on the brake supporting member for frictional engagement with a ange of the spool, radially separable and extensible members normally :having their inner 'adjacent ends abutting 'and their outer ends engaging the inner edges Yof said shoes While the brake is inoperative, the inner ends of said extensible members being spheroidally formed, an adjuster carried .Y

by the brake supporting member, anda spherical element confined between 'the ladjuster 'and v disc':rotatable-thereon, a-ispoolzat times :rotatable Withiandlat-other times independentlyof 'the'd'isd 4 said spool including a drum, an adjuster extensibly held in a recess of the disc, radially extensible pins carried by the disc and provided with spheroidal inner ends, a sphere carried in the,

adjuster recess of the disc and adapted to commonly engage the inner end of the said pins when the adjuster is extended to a maximum limit into its recess so as to extend said radially disposed Y pinsoutwardly', and brake Yshoes pivotally held on the disc engageable at pointswith said pins and at other points with the drum for retarding the 'rotation of the spool relative to that of the disc.

' ARTHUR KOVALOVSKY. OSCAR KOVALOVSKY.

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